Gillespie Air Show 2009

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Gillespie Air Show 2009

The Wings Over Gillespie Air Show at Gillespie Airport in El Cajon Ca. is back. June 5th, 6th and 7th 2009. I am Happy this great little air show is back on. I'll be definitely there on Saturday June 6th.

http://www.wingsovergillespie.org/

The 2009 Ramona Air Fair at Ramona Ca. has cancelled

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How many Apsocal'ers are comming to Gillespie for this air show, now just 2 weeks away.

i'll be there on Saturday

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The Wings Over Gilespie Air Show was better  than I expected, John Cullver put on a great flying demonstration, Martin Kennedy thrilled the crowd with his arial skills, and later during a pyrotecnics demomstration a grass fire broke out that put up a considerable amount of smoke so that 7 AT-6/SNJ aircraft and 4 YAK 52's of the Red Star Squadron had to circle the field for 20 minutes or so, so the fast moving fire could be extinguished. The fire was pushed by 20 MPH winds, about 200 yards of grass between the runways burned. A construction company water truck did most of the work to extinguish the fire and The El Cajon Fire Department mopped up. For Me the highlight was to meet John Cullver, I had about a 10 minute conversation with him.

Lots of pics to follow, maay take 3-4 days to get them all put up so stay tuned.

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These pics are of John Cullver in War Dog prepairing to go flying. The first 4 are prior to starting the engine when the canopy is full open.  The last 3 are after the engine is fired the canopy is partically closed to reduce wind blowing back from the propeller.

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Mr. John Cullver flying War Dog. The weather for his performancce was very cloudy with ceilings in the 3900 feet AGL area, ambient temperature was 67 degrees, wind out of the west at 15-20MPH. Take of was about 10:40 AM. John Landed about 11:00 AM, His only flight of the day.

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More to come

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More to come

Sweet, looks like a lot of fun Hope the weather cleared up a some point. It was clear in Torrance on saturday

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The weather was a lot better today fewer clouds and more sunshine as a cool Santa Ana is moving through San Diego County.

I shot 431 pics on Saturday, about 80 or so were of John Culver and his AT-6 War Dog, and at least 80 or sos more of Martin Kennedy flying little aerobatic aircraft.

Here are 10 more of John Cullver. I have become a fan of his.

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The weather was a lot better today fewer clouds and more sunshine as a cool Santa Ana is moving through San Diego County.

I shot 431 pics on Saturday, about 80 or so were of John Culver and his AT-6 War Dog, and at least 80 or sos more of Martin Kennedy flying little aerobatic aircraft.

Here are 10 more of John Cullver. I have become a fan of his.

Me too, he is a great pilot. 

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Last 10 of John Cullver Flying. In another post I'll show some detail shots of War Dog and a couple pics of John.

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Here are some detail shots of  Douglas A-26 Invader being slowly and methodically restored, This aircraft is flyable.

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Here are a few detail shots pf a U.S.Navy HH-60S helo assigned to HSC-3 Merlins. Based at NAS North Island.

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Here are a series of photograaphs of air show perforrmer Martin Kennedy at the 2009 Wings Over Gillespie Air Show June 6th 2009.